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A month after starting his record-breaking AFL career at Geelong, all Corey Enright wanted to do was end it.The teenager from Kimba, the SA country town halfway between Perth and Sydney, had a bad case of homesickness.So his parents Garry and Maxine flew to Victoria in the summer of 1999-2000 and met Cats officials, including senior coach Mark Thompson.They were very, very concerned that he was homesick and wasnt going to last in Geelong, Thompson told AAP.They were prepared to take him home - and Im so glad they didnt.I was nervous and I just remember begging them to give us a bit more time.I was confident hed be okay and wed be good enough to get him through that period.Thompson credits ex-Cats player Paul Brown, then working at the club in player welfare, for helping Enright settle at Geelong.He (Brown) was the guy who got close to him, made the extra effort ... you involve them, you get him included in things to do outside of football training, Thompson said.The meeting between parents and club proved one of the AFLs great sliding-doors moments.Corey would have missed out, too. It was lucky, Thompson said.After some initial struggles with location, injury and form, Enright quickly found his feet.Thompson was stumped when asked to remember the last time he saw Enright play a bad game.Once he got going after a couple of years, it was almost like you had to teach him how to play, and give him the games to play, and then once he learned the game, you didnt have to coach him any more, Thompson saidHe just turned up.He was just easy to coach and a great bloke.You just sit back and enjoy hes a Geelong player, because he was such a good player.Thompson, who coached the Cats to the 2007 and 09 premierships, rated Enright among the best five players during his time at the club.He adds Enright is also easily among the best five people he has met during his decades in the game.Him and his best mate - (Matthew) Scarlett. Both of them are top blokes, Thompson said.Theyre wired the same way, I think. Cheap Air Max 720 Uk . 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Starting with exhibition games Thursday and continuing Sept. 17 when the tournament begins in Toronto, live games with NHL players will be all over the ESPN airwaves for the first time since 2004.ESPN won the exclusive rights to the two-week tournament over NBC, the NHLs current U.S. broadcast partner. The World Cup on ESPN has reignited the debate over whether hockey needs the network in order to grow in popularity in the U.S.I think its good for hockey in many ways, San Jose Sharks and Canadian defenseman Brent Burns said. Obviously, they reach a huge amount of households, and a lot of people watch it if youre a hockey fan or not. It may bring in more people, let them see how great the game is and get them addicted to hockey like the rest of us.Commissioner Gary Bettman has been steadfast in his support of NBC, which has showcased NHL coverage on its main over-the-air channel and on cable via the NBC Sports Network. It has domestic TV rights for NHL games through 2021 to feature the likes of Hockey Hall of Fame honoree Mike Emrick, its top play-by-play announcer, and has promoted the sport with gusto through outdoor games and national playoff coverage that now rivals Canada in volume.But, its not ESPN, with its deep connection to American fans of all sports.When you walk into a bar, you walk into a restaurant, you walk into any place in the United States or basically the world, ESPNs on, former NHL coach and current ESPN analyst Barry Melrose said. We still have that over any other sports network in the world: the fact that were on just about everywhere all the time.Thats part of the goal with the World Cup: dropping high-level hockey with 150 of the best players into the crowded fall sports calendar to attract viewers who arent hard-core hockey fans. Bettman said last year that the NHL sees the World Cup as an opportunity to rekindle `SportsCenter interest.As SportsCenter anchor and noted puckhead Steve Levy points out, Melrose is ESPNs only hockey analyst compared to countless experts for football, baseball and basketball. Hockey has been shuffled behind the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball and soccer on ESPN, which has the rights to those sports.For this month, though, the NHL will get top billing on ESPN, to the delight of Levy and many of his colleagues in Bristol, Connecticut.Weve tried to do the best we can without having the games, said Levy, who said his reaction to the World Cup on ESPN was tears of joy. Were not afraid to lead `SportsCenter with it if its great hockey game or a specific play, something out of the ordinary. ... Hockey doominates top 10 plays on a regular basis.ddddddddddddThe NHL, of course, was once a fixture on the network when Gary Thorne and Bill Clement were the top broadcast team and Bill Pidto and John Buccigross hosted NHL 2Night. Thorne, now the play-by-play announcer for the Baltimore Orioles, said people approach him every day to tell him they loved ESPNs hockey coverage and miss him calling the sport.You did have a national sports audience that was there and I think people who were not hockey fans but were sports fans were brought into the game because it was on ESPN, said Thorne, who wont be calling World Cup games but isnt closing the door on doing hockey again at some point. They werent going out looking for hockey. It came to them. And many of them found they really liked it.The popular National Hockey Night music will be back -- Why mess with a masterpiece? Levy said. Levy, Melrose, Buccigross and former NHL goalie Kevin Weekes will call the games.Last year, NBC said other programming commitments made the World Cup challenging, and NHL Players Association executive director Don Fehr said going to ESPN was a vote of confidence the network would have a successful national broadcast.ESPN executive vice president of programming and scheduling Burke Magnus didnt want to speculate about getting the NHL back full time in a few years.We are excited to televise the World Cup of Hockey and be back in the professional hockey business, Magnus said. There are many NHL fans in Bristol. As far as rights are concerned, however, the next round is years down the road.Levy doesnt believe the World Cup is an audition for those rights, but said theres value to ESPN being good for the NHL.How can you be a big-time sport in the states and not be on ESPN? I think thats the part thats tough for a lot of people to understand, Levy said. I can tell you the players themselves get frustrated. Theyre on the road, in hotels, and they cant watch their own games, they cant watch action from around the league. Some of the people that have the (NBC Sports Network) channel, they dont know what number it is. It just seems very different than ESPN where you know exactly where youre going at all times.Though the NHLs recent deal with Sportsnet in Canada continued the trend of exclusive TV rights, Melrose and Levy suggested ESPN and NBC could at some point share coverage like other sports.Theres no reason it shouldnt be (on ESPN), Burns said. Its the best sport in the world, so youd think theyd want to have it.---Follow Stephen Whyno on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/SWhyno---This story corrects the surname of Kevin Weekes. ' ' '